genuineoriginal
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There is no need for the ox to recognize the nature and consequence of his actions.To be held responsible for your actions you need to recognize the nature and consequence of your actions and intend those actions. Say someone with a serious mental impairment strikes and kills someone in anger. Thereafter they see a dead body. They understand the person should not be dead and that they have done something to cause it. They then attempt to hide the body.
That's not meeting the standard. That's also why temporary insanity is sometimes a defense for otherwise perfectly functioning adults, in terms of their cognitive process and why we distinguish between premeditated murder and all other taking of life.
People with mental impairments can understand all of that and where they do should be tried as any other person would. Children, operating with tremendously impaired thinking relative to impulse control and recognition, largely tied into an insufficiently developed prefrontal cortex, aren't tried as adults because they prima facie lack both the experience and biological development to fully appreciate the nature and consequence of their actions. It's why we don't let them have credit cards or go to war.
Exodus 21:28 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. |
If a person has no more ability to recognize the nature and consequence of his actions than the ox, then there should be no problem putting the person to death.